In The Freshman, Willow mentions the time Buffy ran away to L.A., seen in Becoming (Part 2): “Buffy wouldn’t just take off. That’s just not in her nature… Except for that one time she disappeared for several months and changed her name, but there were circumstances then. There’s no circumstances.”

In The Freshman, Buffy says “I hope it’s a funny aneurysm” referring to how her mother will react about the cost of her books. This is a foreshadowing of Joyce’s actual death in season five - she died of an aneurysm.

Sunday breaks Buffy’s Class Protector award, presented to her at The Prom, in The Freshman.

In The Freshman, we see that Buffy keeps a photo of Joyce on the desk in her dorm room.

Giles’s address, we discover in The Freshman, is 523 Oakpark Street, Apartment B, Sunnydale, CA 90211.

In The Freshman, we find out that Buffy, Willow, and Oz are taking Introduction to Psychology with Professor Maggie Walsh. Willow is also taking Ethnomusicology.

David Boreanaz and Sarah Michelle Gellar had cameo parts in each others’ season premiere episodes. In The Freshman, Buffy notices someone who looks like Angel in the Bronze (we see David for a split second). In the Angel episode ‘City Of’, a lonely Angel calls Buffy’s house. She answers the …

Walt Borchert, who played the newly-turned vampire in The Freshman, also played a demon in Living Conditions. He appeared as Jeff in the Buffy episode Crush.

Danielle Weeks played Debbie, the girlfriend of Pete in Beauty and the Beasts. She has also been in Bewitched, What Women Want, Taco Bender, The Day Before, The Weird Al Show and Charmed.

Rickie was Lily’s boyfriend in Anne. The two lived on the streets and spent all their money on huge tattoos proclaiming their love for each other. Rickie was taken by the demon Ken and forced to work in a hell dimension until he got too old. He was found by …

In Anne, the demon calling himself Ken devised a system where he got the names of healthy homeless kids via the nurse at the local blood donor clinic. No mention is made during the episode if the nurse understood the evil system, or what happened to her afterwards.

Mary-Pat Green played the nurse at the blood donor clinic in the episode Anne. Mary has also been in My Best Friend’s Wedding, Desperate Housewives, The Call, Charmed, Six Feet Under, Millennium and Twin Falls Idaho.

In The Prom, Buffy says “Miles to go before we sleep”, referring to Robert Frost’s poem Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening. The poem is quoted again in the dream sequence between Faith and Buffy in Graduation Day (Part 2), when Faith says, “Miles to go.”

In Graduation Day (Part 2), the Mayor says of Angel, “Looks like someone has been eating his spinach.” This is a reference to Popeye, who got his amazing strength from eating spinach.

In Graduation Day (Part 2), Buffy allows Angel to feed from her, so that he can live (or rather, continue to be undead). The scars from this encounter can be seen in future episodes. It’s not the first nor last time that she allows a vampire to drink from her. …